During this week’s roundtable, two of the five presenters triggered travel related discussions.

Jurni
First up, Edreece Arghandiwal from California, pitched Jurni, a social media platform for people to video blog about their experiences. My take: only in certain domains are video blogs interesting. Travel is one of them. Trivial experiences do not have universal appeal, but talented curators curating travel experiences can be quite interesting.

Bugyal
Next, Sudhanshu Rathore from Pune, India, pitched Bugyal, a travel planning social media concept where people who have researched a certain destination will share with others their research. My question: how do you get people to share their research? What is the incentive? Once more, publishing a detailed travelogue may be interesting to people, not as much for publishing research. It may, however, serve the same purpose.RISEcx
Then Dave Richards from Portland, Oregon, pitched RISEcx, a sales engagement collaboration platform that has been developed with customer financing, and is currently getting ready to generate product revenues. Interesting business, I thought.

NextGenUrban
Vince Carter from Los Angeles, California, pitched NextGenUrban, a real estate company that builds housing based on clean and green technologies.

Directory of US Patent Holders in Canada and China
Last up, Henry Chang from Toronto, Canada, pitched his directory of US patent holders in Canada and China. Henry was looking for us to build his business for him, which is not what we do.

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